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Virginia Folk Housing, an update

Jane Griswold Radocchia

That Line can be the radius for a circle: The arcs of the Line A-B cross at C. 2) Beginning with B on the circumference the arcs of the daisy wheel are added. Henry Glassie, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia, U Tennessee Press, 1975. It no longer exists. ** The original post is here: [link].

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Virginia Folk Housing, an Update, Part 2

Jane Griswold Radocchia

The main block is double the size of the house I wrote about in Part1: [link] The geometry begins as it did in Part 1, using the width as the circle's radius. If the carpenter extends his arcs he can quickly find the missing points. Extend the arc centered at 3 (2-A-4 ) to B. C is the center of a new arc, (7-A-8 ).

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Greenwood Rising // Local Projects

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The Arc of Oppression describes the systemic social, economic, and political oppression leading up to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, before immersing visitors in the horrors of the event itself. © Local Projects. © Local Projects.

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